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Last time I posted a Minecraft for Parents guide I taught you about the bonus chest (PC Only). This guide is about mining wood which works in all versions of the game. Wood is a very important part of Minecraft as without it, you can’t progress much further.

First, open up your copy of Minecraft. I will be using Win10 Edition for this.

What are behaviour packs? Well, they are a bit advanced, but they are part of Minecraft PE/Win10 that you can enable and tweak gameplay a little bit. Resource packs change the look of the game.

Click play.

If you have already made a world and used a bonus chest in PC then you don’t need to make a new world yet.

Walk over to a tree and left click and keep the click down until the wood disappears and appears as a small version of itself. Then you can collect it.

Continue doing this to pieces of wood. On PE, push your finger at a block and keep it pressed until you destroy it.

The previous guide showed how to play creative mode and use the preloaded hotbar blocks (PE only). However, this guide focuses on using the inventory.

What is it?

The inventory has many different blocks in. In survival, you have to collect items to add to your inventory but in creative the items are preloaded.

How to access:

Access the inventory on PC and Win10 by pressing E. Exit by pressing ESC or E again. Tap the three little dots in the hotbar to open it in PE and press the dots again to exit or use the cross button. To open on Xbox, press Y. For Playstation, press triangle.

How to use:

In PC and Win10 versions you can click on the search button to search for items (creative only). In PE, this is sadly not possible 😥😥.

You can click on the tabs with block icons on to see different types such as combat and decoration. Scroll down and find different items. Click, tap or select these items to equip. On PC and Win10, click on them and move them over to your hotbar and then click to equip then on the slot of your choice. Exit the inventory and try building.

Now that you have created a world, then it is time to get started. Move around with WSAD keys and jump with space. For PE, the controls are easy enough to learn by yourself. On the Win10 version, use the same controls as on PC.

Double tap on space to fly, press hard on space to fly higher, and double press space to fall. Use SHIFT to lower yourself. Try flying to explore your world.

Use the Small Circle control to jump in PE. Tap it twice to fly. Tap it twice again to fall.

You will see a bar at the bottom of the screen with blocks in. This is the hotbar. Use number keys 1-9 to navigate your hotbar. In the PE version, there are items preloaded in the bar. In PC, it is empty. In Win10 the items are preloaded just like PE.

As these guides are designed to be pretty simple, I won’t chat about the inventory in this post. In the next post I will go into discussing this.

Welcome to the Minecraft Guide for parents! This is 100% unofficial but is still a great starters’ guide.

This post will be explaining about how to open Minecraft.

On the PC, double click on the Minecraft shortcut on the Desktop. If there isn’t one, then go to C:\Program Files (x86\Minecraft and right click on MinecraftLauncher.exe and click Send to, and then Desktop.

Then go to the desktop and a Minecraft shortcut should be there.

On Linux, you first need to get Java. It is free to download but remember that the latest Java 8 Update 131 (at the time of writing) should work well with Minecraft.

Then run the Minecraft.jar file you downloaded from Minecraft.net.

On the Mac, run Minecraft.dmg and then launch Minecraft from your Applications menu.

You should be greeted with a game launcher. This is normal, don’t worry, click on Play and Minecraft should download.

Once the game opens, click Single Player, then Create New world, and then take a look:

First, if you are a starter of Minecraft, which is very likely if reading this, you should just select Creative Mode, name your world something like “Starter World” and create new. As you get more experienced in Minecraft, you can tweak the world settings a bit.

In Windows 10 Edition, you launch the Game from the Microsoft Start Menu. You can pin it as a live tile if you want.

To create a world in this version, follow on:

Here is the world creation menu in PE and Win10 versions of Minecraft.

In the next post I will explain about building stuff in your world.